Celebrity Birthdays and on this Day in History May 6 2012 : George Clooney - Tom Bergeron - Gabourey Sidibe

from VIEWS FROM A BROAD by Ester Goldberg

Willie Mays (baseball player) is 81 Elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1979

Bob Seger - 67

Alan Dale - 65  (Character actor from New Zealand who always plays the older, powerful businessman types.  He was Charles Widmore on "Lost

Tony Blair (politician) is 59 Former Prime Minister of England

Tom Bergeron (TV host) is 57 Current host of Dancing with the Stars 

Mare Winningham 53- Actress

Roma Downey (actress) is 52 “Monica” on Touched by an Angel

George Clooney (actor) is 51 (Master "Swordsman" extraordinaire, and THE star of "Return of the Killer Tomatoes", "Return to Horror High" and Season 7-9 of "The Facts of Life"!)

Rubin "Hurricane" Carter - 75  (Boxer wrongly convicted of murder.  Denzel Washington played him in "The Hurricane".)

Adrianne Palicki - 29  (Tyra Collette on "Friday Night Lights".  She played Wonder Woman in the NBC pilot that NEVER AIRED.  She also appeared in an "Aquaman" pilot that the WB NEVER AIRED . . . and a pilot for a "Lost in Space" reboot that NEVER AIRED.)

Gabourey Sidibe - 29 Precious

Chris Paul - 27  (Excellent point guard for the Los Angeles Clippers

Orson Welles - (1915 - 1985)  (filmmaking icon.  He made "Citizen Kane".  Then he gained 200-plus pounds to top out over FOUR HUNDRED.) 

Rudolph Valentino - (1895 - 1926) (SEXUAL LEGEND.  When he died, 100,000 crazy women  lined the streets of his funeral procession, and hundreds of women worldwide committed suicide. Two of those were Japanese girls who JUMPED INTO A VOLCANO.)

Sigmund Freud - (1856 - 1939)  (the father of psychoanalysis.)

1840 A tornado that touched down in eastern Louisiana and crossed the Mississippi River into Natchez, Miss., killed 317 people - most of them on boats in the river.

1861 Arkansas seceded from the Union.

1889 The Paris Expositionopened, featuring the just-completed Eiffel Tower.

May 6, 1937, the hydrogen-filled German dirigible Hindenburg burned and crashed in Lakehurst, N.J., killing 36 of the 97 people on board.

1965 - Keith Richards began writing the Rolling Stones' "Satisfaction" in a Florida hotel room.

1972 - Elton John's "Rocket Man" was released.

1973 - In Boston, Paul Simon began his first tour without Art Garfunkel.

1977 - Dolly Parton made her New York singing debut. 

1977 - Led Zeppelin set a new record for the largest audience at a single-act concert. 76,229 people were at a show in Pontiac, MI.

1978 - The Bee Gees announced the launch of UNICEF benefit concerts.

1994 - Pearl Jam filed a complaint with the U.S. Justice Department against Ticketmaster. The charge was the company had a monopoly on the concert ticket business.

1994 - Former Arkansas state worker Paula Jones filed suit against U.S. President Clinton. The case alleged that he had sexually harassed her in 1991.

1995 - James Taylor and Natalie Cole received honorary degrees at Berklee College of Music's 50th anniversary commencement.

1999 - A parole board in New York voted to release Amy Fisher. She had been in jail for 7 years for shooting her lover's wife, Mary Jo Buttafuoco, in the face.

2001 - Chandra Levy's parents reported her missing to police in Washington, DC. Levy's body was found on May 22, 2002 in Rock Creek Park.

2002 "Spider-Man" became the first movie to make more than $100 million in its opening weekend.

2005 - In Augusta, GA, a statue of James Brown was unveiled. The bronze life size statue was to commemorate Brown's musical accomplishments.

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